The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-13
Farm and Garden Notes.


-NeW York Times.
Farm and Garden Notes.
Feed the young chicks early, late, and
often.
There are few plants that start from
seed as readily as lilacs.
A farmers wife whose hens have paid
we'll calls poultry the woman's friend.
The finest stalks of asparagus are raised
by giving the plants plenty of room.
From analysis, oat straw appears to be,
as a rule, superior to wheat straw for
feeding purposes.
Mineral fertilizers, notably mari, are
best for peach trees. Stable manure on
young trees is deleterious.
Foremost among birds that never do US
any harm are the wren and bluebird, ac-
cording to fruit grower.
Oats and peas sowed together, and fed
as soon as the crop is high enough to cut,
is convenient feed for cow or two on a
farm.
When fungus appears on roses, carna-
tions or other sodden plants sulphur ex-
posed to the hot sun is among the best
remedies.
Remember that sheep are close grazers
and ought not be turned on backward
pastures or on fields not we'll covered
with grass.
Lampblack mixed with strong vinegar
will mark the sheep so that it will remain
year, and will not injure the wool as do
tar and paint.
Wire netting, two-inch mesh, is said
now to be cheaper than boards for
fencing poultry, and more easily ar
ranged with less labor.
If stock of all kinds could have a
dark shelter to fee.to in the hot part of
the day, to get away from the dies, it
would be great saving.
Absorbents should be freely used to
prevent standing water about the yard OF
barn cellar as a sanitary measure and a
saver of fertilizing material.
Some recommend to sow pasture land
with clover and variety of grasses, that
herds of cattle with different tastes may
separate over the entire pasture.
The common red clover is better. than
the large for general purposes. The lat
ter is difficult to cure, makes coarserhay
and is more apt to become musty.
Buttermilk is cheap food for the pigs,
and they will always do we'll VIXEN but
termilk is made q portion of their food :;
but it should not be fed exclusively.
When brood sow proves a good and
careful mother keep her, and do not dis
card her for lighter and younger one,
because the old is large and heavy.
Lettuce seed should be sowed on q
tinely-prepared bed, made rich, and the
largest plants used as they grow, which
will avoid the necessity of transplant
ing.
Undertake to cultivate no more than
YOU can manage we'll, and increase your
acres as you increase in ability, and your
acres and ability will advance step by
step. '::f:ahsisa..,.- sY.-s- -se~s'- ~
If new grape vines are wanted, lay the
last year wood in a trench before the
buds start much. Rub off half the buds
and fill gradually with mould as the shoots
grow.
It is claimed that more damage is done
by the gentle bull than those chat are
vicious, and the advice is to watch them,
as the gentlest of bulls is treacherous
animal.
It is too often forgotten that the teeth
of aged animals, like those of old men,
are defective, and food should be ground
and made soft accordingly, in order to
feed them with economy.
An exchange says if farmers will drop
a soup-bean or two in each hill of pota.
toes when they plant them the pesky po-
. tato bug will never bother them. There
is a smell about the bean the beetles dis
like.
If by the ensilage system, a greater
number of COWS can be kept, the farmer
will have larger area of land to be cul-
tivated. Every acre of pasture that can
be cultivated and made to yield a crop
!; is gain.
With an ample supply of sweet, ten;
der grass and clover, no5 only cattle and
sheep, but hogs, would steadily lay on
flesh and fat till the frost appears IN the
fall. A variety ofgrass and clover is alb,
solutely necessary if q farmer would
produce beef, mutton and pork at very
small cost.
A correspondent of the Country Gen.
Heman dilates on the advantages result
ing from bagging grapes. 1t much more
than pays for the time and trouble de-
voted to the work, and assures the ripen-
ing of several varieties which, if not
bagged, would be worthless. The bag
should be slipped over the cluster before
the grapes become large enough to be
stunT hy insects.